U&Yesterday +1 Sunday

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Michael Portillo sets off on another journey around the nation, this time exploring the Britain of the 1930s, beginning by travelling from Jarrow to Spennymoor

Michael Portillo is in Northumbria en route to the Highlands, discovering what lay behind a national initiative to plant one of the largest manmade woodlands in Europe

Michael Portillo reaches the Westerglen Transmitting Station in Falkirk, before visiting Gleneagles and Berry Town on route to his final stop on this leg, the city of Dundee

Michael Portillo travels from Dundee to Aberdeen, stopping off at Glamis Castle, where the Queen Mother grew up, and making an excursion into the Eastern Highlands

Ian Hamilton and his guide dog Major head to Angus and the town of Arbroath, a fine red sandstone town which nestles around its historic abbey

Ian and Major head to the capital of the Western Isles and finds Stornoway looking to the future with plans for a new harbour to attract cruise ships

A skipper collapses in the wheelhouse but insists on continuing fishing, and a storm threatens a crew still mourning the loss of a shipmate at sea

The trawlers Fruitful Bough and Rosebloom, crewed by two sets of brothers, find themselves not only working for each other, but also competing for catches

Derek Mathewson picks up a lovingly restored 1925 Calthorpe motorbike that he thinks is more of a work of art than anything ever produced by Picasso

Dave Mathewson gets wind of a possible free lunch at the officers' mess when he heads off to collect a stylish Swedish Volvo P1800S from an RAF base in the Midlands

The team, including Andy Joynson, buy the right kind of Land Rover, but it's got the wrong engine. Can they clean up its emissions with a modern motor?

Gus and Will want to buy an MGB roadster but the cheaper GT version is the one they find. It's got a few rust patches, and back in the workshop they realise beauty is skin deep

The wildlife on the great plains of Africa, Asia, North America and the Arctic. Night-vision equipment tracks a pride of 30 lions hunting elephants in the tropical African savannah

An insight into woodlands around the world, from the stunted conifers cloaked in snow and ice in the forests of the Arctic, to the unusual upside-down trees in Madagascar

Varied species in tropical rainforests, observing the courtship rituals of birds of paradise, a chimpanzee group defending its territory and a flying-frog mating orgy

Following the epic journey of a humpback whale and its calf as they travel from a tropical paradise to the species' great feeding ground in the icy polar seas

In the third part of his journey, Simon travels through the Andes mountains from Peru to Bolivia, beginning at the world-famous ruins of Machu Pichu

The actor walks along the north coast of Normandy, France, tracing the footsteps of the soldiers who took part in the D-Day landings

Gus and Will want to buy an MGB roadster but the cheaper GT version is the one they find. It's got a few rust patches, and back in the workshop they realise beauty is skin deep

The team, including Andy Joynson, buy the right kind of Land Rover, but it's got the wrong engine. Can they clean up its emissions with a modern motor?

Derek Mathewson collects a Jaguar Mark 2 and explains why they made such poor getaway cars for 1960s bank robbers. A customer considers a Morris Marina as a Christmas present

The team is under pressure with a record number of cars to auction, but Derek finds room for one more - a replica AC Cobra. A couple are reunited with their Volvo breakdown truck

A classic car fan with a love of the Jaguar E-Type reluctantly sends his dream car to auction, hoping to buy a motorhome with the money. Two Ford Escorts get Dave's pulse racing

A widow reluctantly parts with her husband's treasured collection of Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, and an impulse buyer finds one of the cars a new home

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